Various businesses have reaped the benefits of Pokemon GO, bringing them extra customers and attention. However, there are some institutions and private areas that haven’t been happy about being a PokeStop. Niantic is fortunately now starting to act on removal requests.

The Provo City Library is one such place that asked Niantic to take down its status as a PokeStop. They were told on August 2 that their request had been approved, and PokeStops were actually removed more quickly than they anticipated. Similar stories should begin popping up more frequently very soon.

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Niantic CEO John Hanke has penned a new message about Pokemon GO on the company’s official website.

The main point of the letter was to highlight the importance of maintaining service. Niantic said it was delayed in bringing out the game across Latin America “due to aggressive efforts by third parties to access our servers outside of the Pokemon GO game client and our terms of service”. Third-parties were blocked to free up resources, transition to new features, and avoid cheating.

Hanke also said that Niantic has “heard feedback about the Nearby feature in the game and are actively working on it.”

The full message reads:

Things have been pretty crazy here at Niantic over the last few weeks but despite all of the ups and downs we get up every day inspired by the original goals of Niantic – to create an experience that encourages healthy outdoor exploration and social gameplay. Every positive story we hear (like this one from the UK) motivates us to keep working to support the game and continue the roll-out. Running a product like Pokémon GO at scale is challenging. Those challenges have been amplified by third parties attempting to access our servers in various ways outside of the game itself.

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Nnooo has announced that The Legend of Kusakari will release on August 25 in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The 3DS eShop game is priced at $4.99 / €4.99 / £3.99 / AUS$6.99 / NZ$7.99.

For those that missed it, here’s a trailer from February:

We’ve included some information about The Legend of Kusakari after the break.

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Niantic has acknowledged a new bug within Pokemon GO. The game’s latest issue, which affects throw accuracy, is increasing escape odds and omitting the XP bonus. Thankfully, a fix is said to be in the works.

Here’s the official tweet from Niantic:

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Psycho Pigs is out now on the European 3DS eShop, with the North American launch taking place soon. The game takes up 654 blocks on an SD card. That amounts to 81.75MB.

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Joindots has nailed down another digital game for the European 3DS eShop. Jump Trials Supreme will be available on August 18 for €4.99.

The G-Style action-adventure game originally made its way to North America in late December 2013. Here’s an overview:

Run and jump as fast as you can across obstacle courses in a desperate race to reach the goal in 10 seconds!

Can you reach the goal within 10 seconds?

Every split-second counts as you race across obstacle courses, leaping from platform to platform, in a desperate race to reach the goal in 10 seconds.

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Natsume confirmed River City: Tokyo Rumble’s localization in April. Since then, the publisher has been sticking to a “Summer” release window – until recently.

Today, Natsume put out a tweet which reveals River City: Tokyo Rumble North American launch window of September. On top of that, retailers may give a clue about a specific date. Play-Asia flat-out claims that River City: Tokyo Rumble is scheduled for September 13. And interestingly enough, GameFly has the same date.

At the very least, River City: Tokyo Rumble is coming in September. September 13 could be the final date. Note that the game will be seeing a limited physical run in North America, but will be digital-only in Europe.

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On August 18, Lightwood Games will be bringing its new puzzler Word Logic by POWGI to the eShop, the indie developer announced today. It’ll be out on both Wii U and 3DS for $9.99 / €7.99 / £7.99.

Here are a couple of trailers for both games:

Head past the break for information about the different games included in Word Logic by POWGI.

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The Wii U exclusive Collateral Thinking, an “arcade-style action platformer”, has just received it’s first gameplay trailer. You can view the trailer for yourself below.

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The 3DS network will be undergoing maintenance on this coming Sunday. Some network services for the 3DS may become unavailable.

The maintenance period is scheduled as such:

• 7 PM PT – 8 PM PT
• 10 PM ET – 11 PM ET
• 3 AM in the UK – 4 AM in the UK
• 4 AM in Europe – 5 AM in Europe

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